Numbers 2:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

"The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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אֲבִידָ֖ן

ʼĂbîydân

H27

“Abidan”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 1:11

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H1777

TWOT: None

Abidan = "my father is judge" - a prince (ruler) of Benjamin

About this verse

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8: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲבִידָ֖ן Abidan H27 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲבִידָ֖ן Abidan H27 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בִּנְיָמִ֑ן Benjamin H1144 ×2
לִבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Numbers 2:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin
Numbers 7:65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 10:24 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Psalms 68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, The princes of Judah, their council, The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Numbers 2:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמַטֵּ֖ה בִּנְיָמִ֑ן וְנָשִׂיא֙ לִבְנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֔ן אֲבִידָ֖ן בֶּן גִּדְעֹנִֽי

"The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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Greek LXX Numbers 2:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ παρα ἐνβάλλω ἔχω φυλή βενιαμίν καί ὁ ἄρχων ὁ υἱός βενιαμίν αβιδαν υἱός γαδεωνι

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Benjamin, and the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gadeoni.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְשִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִן וְרַבָּא לִבְנֵי בִנְיָמִן אֲבִידָן בַּר גִדְעוֹנִי

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְשִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִין וְרַבָּא דַהֲוָה מְמַנֵי עַל חֵילְוַת שִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי בִּנְיָמִין אֲבִידָן בַּר גִדְעוֹנִי

Of the tribe of Benjamin the Rabba was Abidan bar Gideoni,

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 2:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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John Gill's Exposition

Then the tribe of Benjamin,.... He was to pitch under the same standard of Ephraim, and the other side of it from that of Manasseh; the one being before, and the other behind, and the standard in the middle; See Gill on Num 2:7,

and the captains of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni; of whom see Num 1:11.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues telling Moses where each tribe and its army will camp around the tent of meeting. (See: Numbers)

Abidan son of Gideoni

See how you translated this man's name in Numbers 1:11.

35,400

"Thirty-five thousand four hundred." This refers to the number of men. AT: "35,400 men" (See: Numbers and Ellipsis)

translationWords

Benjamin

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Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîydân (“Abidan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼĂbîydân carries the sense “Abidan.” How does it shape the verse?
Numbers 1:11 shares the word «Abidan» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Benjamin” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“Benjamin” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.